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wrm5 Since: Mar, 2014
2015-02-27 21:07:45

This is in the page's source:

%% This page is a self-demonstrating article that shows what circular redirects are and gives the screen to break them. Please do not remove or change the redirect as it's the whole point.

[[redirect:CircularRedirect]]

For what it's worth, mod Telcontar put it up.

EDIT: Personally, I think it would be more helpful to have Main.Circular Redirect be a regular article explaining what circular redirects are and how to avoid them, and then have a separate SelfDemonstrating.Circular Redirect page if people think they need to experience it first hand to understand it.

Edited by wrm5
SeptimusHeap MOD (Edited uphill both ways)
2015-02-28 02:27:32

It's been self demo since a long time. You cannot save a circular redirect article without either generating that disambig page that asks you to fix it or generating an "Infinite loop" error in your browser. With that in mind, I find it pointless to turn it into a regular article.

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KarjamP Since: Apr, 2011
2015-02-28 02:45:54

I think there used to be a customized error page there explaining why it's a problem. The fact that said customized error page is removed (resulting in the generic error message provided by the brower itself) is most likely a bug of the new website layout.

SeptimusHeap MOD (Edited uphill both ways)
2015-02-28 05:19:51

Yep, and it's been reported as such.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
bwburke94 (Y2: Electric Boogaloo)
2015-03-01 20:14:21

I think I might have been the one who created that one.

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